The Galactic civil war portrayed in the original Star Wars trilogy is one of the most well known, if not the most well known fictional conflict in science fiction. You can ask anyone who the good guys and bad guys are, and what each side was fighting for, and most everyone will be able to give the canonically correct answer: The Rebel Alliance fights to destroy the evil Galactic Empire, and to reinstate the republic. The Star Wars story has become so popular that even football and baseball fans have dubbed certain teams as "the Evil Empire," or "the Rebel Alliance." But delving deeper into this epic saga shows us that the Good versus Evil trope portrayed in Star Wars isn't as black and white as we would like it to be. In fact, The Jedi and
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The rebellion appears to be similar to the American Revolution, except not stopping at liberating New England, but moving on to remove England's control from any nation that was under it, including Briton. The goal of the Rebel alliance was not order, as that already existed under Palpatine's rule, and the only thing disturbing that was the rebellion. So what was the point? Why would you fight to reinstate a government that couldn't even remove known separatist supporters from the senate? One could argue that the inability to accomplish simple tasks within the republic was due Palpatine's manipulation, but we know by observing our own government that you don't need someone with mystic powers to grind a senate meeting to a halt. All you need is a few people who benefit enough themselves, and they'll push their agenda to the end of time. Darth Sidious destroyed an ineffective system, and replaced it with a productive police state, while at the same time getting rid of an ultra-conservative religious faction. In the short term, the evils committed to achieve this were atrocious, yet in the long term, necessary in order to maintain a stable and effective government, and to remove the Jedi from
The rebellion appears to be similar to the American Revolution, except not stopping at liberating New England, but moving on to remove England's control from any nation that was under it, including Briton. The goal of the Rebel alliance was not order, as that already existed under Palpatine's rule, and the only thing disturbing that was the rebellion. So what was the point? Why would you fight to reinstate a government that couldn't even remove known separatist supporters from the senate? One could argue that the inability to accomplish simple tasks within the republic was due Palpatine's manipulation, but we know by observing our own government that you don't need someone with mystic powers to grind a senate meeting to a halt. All you need is a few people who benefit enough themselves, and they'll push their agenda to the end of time. Darth Sidious destroyed an ineffective system, and replaced it with a productive police state, while at the same time getting rid of an ultra-conservative religious faction. In the short term, the evils committed to achieve this were atrocious, yet in the long term, necessary in order to maintain a stable and effective government, and to remove the Jedi from